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Breshkovsky

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[bresh-kawf-skee, -kof-] / brɛʃˈkɔf ski, -ˈkɒf- /

noun

  1. Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”


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He joined the Narodnaia Volia or Party of the People's Will�members of this party are better known as the Nihilists�which was led by Prince Peter Kropotkin, Catherine Breshkovsky, Nicholas Tchaikovsky.

From Time Magazine Archive

Catherine Breshkovsky, the Socialist "Grandmother of the Russian Revolution," though now an aged woman, lived long enough to bewail the fate of her country.

From The Red Conspiracy by Mereto, Joseph J.

It would make everything simple and you'd be doing your bit, then, for Madame Breshkovsky!

From Happy House by Abbott, Jane D.

A message of love and admiration was sent to Mrs. Catherine Breshkovsky, "the grandmother of the Russian Revolution."

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Harper, Ida Husted

Catherine Breshkovsky, "the little grandmother of the Russian revolution," visited Massachusetts this year and addressed a number of meetings arranged by the suffragists, including a large one in Faneuil Hall.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Harper, Ida Husted